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Mastering PostgreSQL 15 - Fifth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248349
Pages 522 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Profile icon Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: PostgreSQL 15 Overview 2. Chapter 2: Understanding Transactions and Locking 3. Chapter 3: Making Use of Indexes 4. Chapter 4: Handling Advanced SQL 5. Chapter 5: Log Files and System Statistics 6. Chapter 6: Optimizing Queries for Good Performance 7. Chapter 7: Writing Stored Procedures 8. Chapter 8: Managing PostgreSQL Security 9. Chapter 9: Handling Backup and Recovery 10. Chapter 10: Making Sense of Backups and Replication 11. Chapter 11: Deciding on Useful Extensions 12. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting PostgreSQL 13. Chapter 13: Migrating to PostgreSQL 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding developer-related features

Administration-related features are not everything. PostgreSQL 15 also provides some developer-related features that are useful to build even more powerful applications. In this section, you will learn which ones are available.

Security invoker views

In PostgreSQL, a view is a separate security context. It might happen that somebody is allowed to access a view but not the underlying table. Why does this matter? Consider the following scenario:

  • Joe is allowed to see all sales
  • Jane is only allowed to see total turnover by country

Jane will be granted rights on a view that sums up the data. She will be able to read that view without having the right to read the sales table directly.

However, in PostgreSQL, it is now possible to make PostgreSQL treat the view more like a preprocessor directive. By setting security_invoker, it will also check the underlying tables and not treat the view as a separate security context anymore...

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